Re: Nasty cockerel!

Tracie wrote:
Help! I'm having a nightmare with my Marans cockerel. He has started
attacking one of the hens. I don't know why he has started doing
this - I can only put it down to the fact that she won't let him have
his wicked way with her. I'm really worried for this hens well-being
and am keeping them seperate best I can but would like to know
whether the cockerel should be living in seperate quarters or the hen?

If I seperate the hen she worries as she wants to be with the others
but I can't let her because of the cockerel attacks!

Thanks in advance

Tracie

What do you mean by attacking?
Do you really want to perpetuate this trait into the next generation?

But meantime -- separate the cockerel.

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Jill Bowis

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